I just got back from holiday in Cuba, where I managed to finish A Tale of Two Cities (enjoyed it, but not as much as other Dickens I have read (Oliver Twist and Great Expectations) or listened to (Nicholas Nickleby and David Copperfield)). I also read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway. He spent a lot of time in Cuba and everyone was talking about him there, so thought it was worth a read. I enjoyed it, despite it being very very short, and think as a result I will read some more Hemmingway. I also finally got round to reading To Kill A Mockingbird, which I have been meaning to read for years, and it was as fantastic as everyone told me it would be. It is hard for a book to live up to such high expectations, but it really did. I do wish I had first read it when I was younger though. I would like to have done it at school. I also managed to get about 35% of the way through Les Miserables, which I am finding quite a struggle. I think there is a good story in there, and I am enjoying learning a bit more about what happened after the French Revolution after reading about it in A Tale of Two Cities, but he just constantly goes of on random tangents, and into insane amount of detail about things. There's also a bit too much religious stuff for my liking. I will persevere with it I think, now I have got this far, but I am struggling, and I don't tend to struggle even with large books. Has anyone here read Les Mis? Any thoughts/help with motivation to continue? I am definitely going to try and see the musical in the summer, I have no idea how they managed to turn such a huge book into a show, will be very interested to find out!